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wide move on the turn, and looked to be in good position turning for home. With Wegetsdamunnys going with her, Goodbye Brockley swept by the leaders nearing the eighth pole, then raced in tandem with Wegetsdamunnys to the finish. The running time was 1:39.25 over a yielding Inner Turf course.

“There was a lot of bumping everywhere,” winning jockey Luis Saez said of the stretch run. “At one point, I thought she gave up. And when I saw Manny [Franco, aboard Wegetsdamuunys] come outside, I said, ‘Man, he’s beat me.’ But when I switched my stick, [Goodbye Brockley] tried to come back, and she did. She responded, and that’s the way we won the race.”

Out of the money just once in seven starts, Goodbye Brockley now sports a 3-2-1 record for ownerbreeder Hilly Fields Stable. The $55k winner’s share of the Statue of Liberty boosts her earnings to $176,900.